is a Japanese

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writer. VIZ Productions is developing a feature film based on her short story "The Street of Fruiting Bodies."

Works in English translation

;Novel * '' The Cage of Zeus'' (original title: ''Zeusu no Ori''), trans. Takami Nieda (

Haikasoru VIZ Media LLC is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ M ...

, 2011) ;Short stories * "Fin and Claw" (original title: Uobune, Kemonobune), trans. Daniel Huddleston (''Speculative Japan 3: Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy'', Kurodahan Press, 2012) * "The Street of Fruiting Bodies" (original title: Kusabira no Michi) (''Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan'',

, 2014)

Awards

* 2003 –

Sakyo Komatsu was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan. Early life Born Minoru "Sakyo" Komatsu in Osaka, he was a graduate of Kyoto University where he stud ...

Award: ''Kasei Daku Barado'' (''Mars Dark Ballade'') * 2011 – Japan SF Award: ''Karyu no Miya'' (''The Ocean Chronicles'')

Bibliography

''The Ocean Chronicles'' series

* Novels ** , 2010 ** , 2013 *Short stories ** (2006) (English translation: "Fin and Claw") ** (2011)

''Pastry'' series

* , 2005 * , 2008 * , 2011

''Yokai Detective'' series

* , 2014

Standalone sci-fi/fantasy novels

* , 2003 * , 2004 (English translation: '' The Cage of Zeus'', Haikasoru, 2011) * , 2008 * , 2012 * , 2015

Short story collections

* , 2009 ** (2006) (English translation: "Fin and Claw") ** (2007) (English translation: "The Street of Fruiting Bodies") ** (2008) ** (2007) ** (2004) ** (2009) * , 2011 ** (2011) ** (2009) ** (2011) ** (2011)

References

External links

Official website

Facebook

Twitter account of her agent

Interview with Sayuri Ueda, author of The Cage of Zeus (Haikasoru) « The World SF Blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ueda, Sayuri 1964 births Writers from Kobe 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Japanese women short story writers Japanese science fiction writers Japanese fantasy writers Living people Women science fiction and fantasy writers Japanese women novelists 21st-century Japanese women writers 20th-century Japanese women writers 20th-century Japanese short story writers 21st-century Japanese short story writers